The artists in his shows specialize in electronically generated sounds, ranging from techno to Morton sheetsick-like sheets of sound.
Coltrane's sheets of sound and Pollack's field of action were very much the same thing, one expressed aurally and the other visually".
In "Favorite Things" he traces a connection between "sheets of sound," as Coltrane's improvisational style was often described, and Jackson Pollock's method of action painting.
Twice, the music dissolves into parallel sheets of sound; Björk's voice is reproduced electronically, creating a harmonic foam, while the horns play discrete lines.
One of the mechanics slid the heavy doors shut, and Mr. Boota started to play at full volume, unleashing deafening sheets of sound.
A buddy who was the doorman seated them up front, and there Coltrane's trademark "sheets of sound" washed over them, almost literally.
By the time she enrolled in Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1996, she was a committed tenor saxophonist, wanting nothing so much as to emulate the "sheets of sound" that Coltrane made so famous.
Francis Davis, an author who attended the church while researching a coming Coltrane biography, "Sheets of Sound," said, "I kind of went there expecting, I don't know, snake handlers or something crazy".
A chord later, and she's delivering a fantasy rap about pinning a satyr down into wet grass while "the storm is juss bucketing out rain in sheets of sound like John Coltrane".
But 40 years ago it resonated with scales, arpeggios and "sheets of sound," the melodic flurries pioneered by the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, who lived here from 1964 until his death in July 1967.
